58 King & Gamble— Mora of the Malayan Peninsula. [Na 3, 



Linnaea, Til. 316 (not of Boxh. Fl. Ind. L 836 ?) Ouncea trifida^ Ham. in 

 Don Prodr..l35, 



In all the provinces. — Distrjb. Malayan Archipelago, British 

 India, tropical Australia. 



Canthium, Lam. 



Shrubs (sometimes climbing) ^ unarmed or spinons, their stipules 

 of tenconnate. Flowers small, axillary, fascicled, or in corymbose, o^ften 

 pedunculate, cymes } sometimes polygamous. Calyx with short tube 

 and short persistent or deciduous cupular4- or 5-toothed limb. Corolla- 

 tube funiiel-sliaped, campanulate or urceolate, usually with a ring oi 

 deflexed hairs in the throat ; limb 4-5-lobed, valyate in bud, finally 

 reflexed. Anthers equal in number to tlie lobes of the limb, inserted io 

 the mouth or throat of the corolla, sessile or on short fiflaments. Dish 

 annular, tumid or depressed. Ovary 2-celled ; style stout ; stigma large, 

 entire or bifid; ovules solitary in the loculi and pendulous. Drupe 

 didymous or sub-globose or (when one of the carpels is suppressed) 

 reniform, with L-2 pyrenes, or a 2-celled putamen. Seeds pendulous-, 

 oblotig, with membranous testa and fleshy albumen ; embryo elongate, 

 sub-terete ; the cotyledons short and tfee radicle superior.— Di&tr IB. 

 About 80 species ; in Asia, Africa, tropical A?istralia and Polynesia. 



Flowers 1 in. long, solitary or in pairs, axillary ... 1. C. jiaweifiorum. 



Flowers less than '5 in. long, in axillary cymes ; — 



Spiny straggling or scandent shnabs with more or less 

 hairy leaves : — 



Leaves rarely so much as 15 in. long, with 3 pairs o-f 

 main-nerves, the remains of the calyx on tbe top of 

 the fruit inconspicuous ... ... ... 2. C parvifoUtiin, 



Leaves 2 to Sin. long with 5 pairs of main-nerves : 



fruit crowned by the large calyx-tube ... ... 3. C. molle. 



Unarmed trees or shrubs, glabrous or nearly so : — 

 Corolla-tube wide, short : — 



Fruit much compressed, obovate, about '15 in. 

 long ; pyreues not kfeeled : whole plant quite 

 glabrous ... ... ... ... 4, C eonfertum. 



Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, obscurely 4-angled, some- 

 what compressed, 1 in. or more in length i pyrenes 

 prominently keeled on the back, not warted ; leavos 

 with a few adpressed hairs on their lower sur- 

 face ... ... ... ... 5. C. glahrttm. 



Corolla salrer-sbaped, the tube rery narrow. Fruit 

 much compressed, didymous, minutely velvety, '25 

 to 6 in. long ; pyrenes warted, not keeled : leaves 

 quite glabrous ... ... ... ... 6. C. didymum. 



1. Canthium pauciflorum, King & Gamble, n. sp. A spiny glab- 

 rous shrub 15 to 20 feet high: young branches thicker than a 



